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This is an interesting take on things. Are you saying that you can't heal/grow/improve by means of talking to someone who hasn't had the same (negative?) experi

• 7373737373 7y ago
  Psychotherapy is mostly about achieving an internal perspective change and being able to apply that continually mentally and through interactions in relationships with others. Not that this is impossible to achieve with a therapist (especially if they are experienced), but when they never had ones own perspective, communicating, actually being and feeling understood and achieving that change can be difficult. If only feeling understood mattered, one might as well talk to a a pet or an inanimate object, say your favorite plushy. When one thinks of psychotherapy, typically an image of the "client" lying on a couch, talking to a psychologist, taking notes, comes to mind. Most of psychotherapy is language (conversation) oriented, but there are many other modes of sensation, being and action. So one shouldn't restrict oneself conceptually to considering only these two-person, fixed-place, conversational/analytical interactions as 'true' psychotherapy.